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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






2. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






3. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






4. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






5. State Board of Eduation






6. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






7. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






8. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






9. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






10. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






11. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






12. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






13. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






14. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






15. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






16. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






17. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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18. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






19. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






20. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






21. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






22. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






23. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






24. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






25. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






26. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






27. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






28. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






29. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






30. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






31. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






32. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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33. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






34. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






35. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






36. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






37. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






38. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






39. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






40. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






41. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






42. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






43. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






44. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






45. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






46. r-controlled syllable






47. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






48. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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49. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






50. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.